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I agree. A returning visitor is someone who visited your site before and now they're back again. The "return" in returning visitor is the fact that they left an
by JangoSteve 7y ago
I agree. A returning visitor is someone who visited your site before and now they're back again. The "return" in returning visitor is the fact that they left and came back.
What they're talking about is usually described as tracking unique sessions. So, I would see the use of the referrer as a low-complexity, less reliable, but more privacy-friendly way of tracking unique sessions.
- dvko 7y agoSorry, this is indeed what I meant to say. Will update the text!
- iudqnolq 7y agoDo you store it as the same record type as the cookie-based metric? If I decided to stop using cookies that would make aggregates of the data very misleading.
- dvko 7y agoWe do - I’ll see if we can add in a warning message if changing that setting while a lot of data has already been tracked. Or perhaps mark it in the graph, so the difference comes with an explanation. What would you do?
- iudqnolq 7y agoI'm not sure. It seems like they are totally different metrics and visitors who came from another page on your site might be an interesting metric to cookie users. What if you completely separated them, and tracked and displayed both for cookie users? Users who disable cookies would then have historical data in the same unit. Or a warning would probably work fine.